Railways Minister Saad Rafique on Thursday revealed that he had suggested former premier Nawaz Sharif's 'homecoming' rally after the July 28 Panamagate verdict take the Grand Trunk (GT) Road route instead of the motorway from Islamabad to Lahore ─ a decision that had allegedly been agreed upon by the PML-N leadership ─ according to sidelined party stalwart
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar on Wednesday asked Nawaz Sharif to tell who suggested him to go to Lahore by air instead of leading a rally through the G T Road after his disqualification by the apex court in the Panama Papers case. Spokesman for Ch Nisar Ali Khan issued a clarification against “accusations” hurled
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MURREE: Seven persons, including three women and three children, have lost their lives in two separate incidents of gas leakage in Murree. A newly-wed couple, Shaukat Mehmood and his bride Tazeem Shafique, residents of Kashmiri Bazaar, were found dead in their bedroom due to gas leakage. Their Walima ceremony was to be held on Monday, but the unfortunate
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ABBOTTABAD/AZAD KASHMIR: A spell of heavy snowfall and rain paralysed parts of Azad Kashmir and the Galiyat area of Abbottabad, with the roads connecting four districts of Azad Kashmir with Islamabad also blocked. Thandiyani, Nathiagali, and Ayubia received more than three feet snow during the continuous spell where a large number of tourists were also trapped
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Islamabad: As the whole Pakistani nation got united on the Kashmir Solidarity Day, the political parties, human rights organisations and civil society took out rallies and held protest demonstration to express solidarity with people of Indian Occupied Kashmir in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The local leaderships of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) of twin cities
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Islamabad: Murree attracted large crowds of people from all over the country, especially Islamabad, Rawalpindi and adjoining areas, on Monday, a public holiday on account of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's birth anniversary. However, holidaymakers complained about traffic jams and high hotel rents. The people had begun coming to the Malika-i-Kohsar
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ISLAMABAD: Dense fog is likely to grip plain areas of Punjab and upper Sindh during night and morning hours while clouds with cold and dry weather conditions are expected in most parts of the country during the next 24 hours. Light rain with rain/snowfall over hills is forecast at isolated parts of Malakand, Kalat, Quetta, and upper Fata. Continental
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LAHORE: Weather remained cold with scattered rain and partly cloudy conditions in the provincial metropolis on Tuesday while the Met office predicted similar weather conditions. Met officials said a westerly wave is affecting upper parts of the country and may persist till Wednesday. They predicted more rain-thunderstorm with snowfall over the hills
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Muree and its suburbs have been receiving snowfall intermittently since last night. Four inches of snow has been recorded so far in the area and it is expected that cold winds will continue to blow in the coming week. Neelum Valley, Nikyaal and close by areas have been continuously receiving rain and slight snowfall. While Nanga Parbat, Batuga and Babusar
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ISLAMABAD: Winter snowfall has started on the hilly areas of the country including Neelum Valley, Malam Jabba and high peaks of Skardu district and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) senior official told APP that snowfall took place in different areas of Neelum Valley, Malam Jabba and Skardu and scattered places of AJK. He said that during
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